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Enable statistics for Virtual private endpoint gateways

Currently the only visible metrics that is available for VPE gateways are GIGABYTE_TRANSMITTED and INSTANCE_HOUR present in the billing usage overview. As the VPE gateways are becoming common requirement for many services present on IBM Cloud it w...
7 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Submitted

Expand the supported version skew between the control plane and worker nodes.

Upgrading worker node versions in ROKS requires substantial operational effort.OpenShift supports an N-2 version skew, and we would like IBM Cloud ROKS to support the same level of version skew. (IBM Cloud ROKS supports only an N‑1 version skew no...
28 days ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud Under review

A real-time civic issue reporting and intelligence system that enables citizens to report, track, and verify public infrastructure problems using geotagging, community validation, and live status updates.

The Problem Lens: Real-Time Public Intelligence System is a smart civic engagement platform designed to transform how citizens interact with local authorities for reporting and resolving urban issues. In many cities, citizens face daily challenges...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Analytics Not under consideration

ibmcloud.com should have a login to IBM Cloud button

Previously there was a login to IBM Cloud button on the ibmcloud.com page, but now it has disappeared. I know the correct address for IBM Cloud is cloud.ibm.com, but tell that to the potential customers ;) To me the service name is IBM Cloud, not ...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / UX and Console Under review

Add pglogical extension Support to ICD for PostgreSQL

We would like to request official support for the pglogical extension in IBM’s PostgreSQL offering. Our goal is to set up logical replication for our PostgreSQL instance in the Frankfurt region to a location outside of Frankfurt, Madrid, and Paris...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Under review

In-place upgrade to a new major version for MySQL.

In-place major version upgrade allows you to upgrade your deployment to the next new major version, eliminating the need to restore a backup into a new deployment. This approach maintains the same connection strings, without the need to reconfigur...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Databases Future consideration

Network Security Groups for PowerVS public interfaces

A customer configured a public interface/IP address on their PowerVS VSI to allow outbound EDI connections. They are experiencing a large number of inbound hacking attempts. They would like to enable PowerVS Network Security Groups on the public i...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power Under review

We should continue to support UKO

For customers using the orchestration features of the HPCS UKO plan, there is no replacement offered in IBM Cloud for the time after the HPCS sunset. The only replacement described in the documentation is the option to migrate to an on-prem produc...
about 1 month ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Key Protect Future consideration

Terraform language can be enahnced, to use the same IaC-code to build the infrastructure for a given cloud provider, where all the provider related can be traslated in the backgound (similar to JVM).

Hashcorp-product "Terraform", which is a powerfull IaC-tool/language to build the multi-cloud/hybrid infrastructure, which is in use by multiple organization, because of it multi-cloud support.
about 2 months ago in PowerVS Private Cloud / Internal - normal Submitted

Show more util metrics in cloud monitoring about the use of the File Storage

Hello, now, in cloud monitoring, we can see only metrics for read and write operations, but we think that that other operations, like delete, open, etc, are important to know the activity of the file share. We have several FS with a few RW operati...
2 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / File Storage Under review

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